Artforum Video

Rachel Rossin talks about her life and work, from her Florida upbringing to her virtual reality works, along with her paintings and exhibition “Peak Performance,” on display at Signal Gallery in Brooklyn from September 29th to November 12th, 2017.

Artforum Video

New York–based artist Tony Oursler talks about “The Imponderable Archive,” a collection of more than 2500 photographs, objects, and ephemera related to the paranormal that was housed at the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies galleries, plus his film and book, Imponderable, both of which draw on the themes of his extensive archive.

Hương Ngô and Hồng-Ân Trương discuss their collaborative ethos and history, as well as their ongoing project AND AND AND Stammering: An Interview, 2010–. Their work The Opposite of Looking is Not Invisibility. The Opposite of Yellow is Not Gold, 2016, is featured in “Being: New Photography 2018” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from March 18 to August 19, 2018. To read more, click here.

Rachel Rossin talks about her life and work, from her Florida upbringing to her virtual reality works, along with her paintings and exhibition “Peak Performance,” on display at Signal Gallery in Brooklyn from September 29th to November 12th, 2017.

New York–based artist Aliza Nisenbaum talks about her influences, her involvement with Immigrant Movement International, and her show at the Minneapolis Institute of Art September 29–February 4, 2018. To read Emily Liebert’s accompanying piece on Nisenbaum, pick up the October 2017 issue of Artforum, or read it online.

Casey Spooner of FISCHERSPOONER discusses his collaborative relationship with Warren Fischer, their exhibition at mumok in Vienna from June 30 to October 29, 2017, and their upcoming studio album, SIR.

Anne Thompson talks about her project “I-70 Sign Show,” a public-art exhibition along Interstate 70 in Missouri, wherein artworks are displayed near the exit for Hatton for two months, and then moved to another location near the interstate.

Martine Syms talks about her new film Incense Sweaters & Ice, as well as her show “Projects 106: Martine Syms,” on view at MoMA from May 27–July 16, 2017, in this interview. For more, read her interview here.

Party Like It’s 2007’s Famous for Being Famous (2015), a compilation film comprised of archive interviews and paparazzi footage documenting Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian’s rise to fame. For more, see Paige K. Bradley’s Slant on Paris.

A collaboration between dancer and choreographer Boris Charmatz and ninety other dancers and choreographers, If Tate Modern was Musée de la danse? transformed Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall for two days in May, 2015 as part of BMW Tate Live series of events.

Artists Tomas Vu and Rirkrit Tiravanija created a silkscreen printing press in “Occupy Mana: Artists Need to Create at the Same Scale as Society Has the Capacity to Destroy.” The exhibition was curated by Phong Bui and Rail Curatorial Projects for Mana Contemporary.

Bali-based artist Ashley Bickerton discusses his first U.S. Survey, which is comprised of his works from the 1980s to the present. The exhibition is on view at the FLAG Art Foundation from September 23–December 16, 2017.

An excerpt from Thomas Riedelsheimer’s Leaning Into the Wind – Andy Goldsworthy (2017), a film about Goldsworthy’s life and art. This film will be released in theaters on March 9, 2018. For more, see the film’s website.

Allora & Calzadilla collaborate with Ted Chiang for The Great Silence (2016). This film focuses on the world’s largest single aperture radio telescope, located in Esperanza (Hope), Puerto Rico, which transmits and captures radio waves to and from the farthest edges of the universe.

Alex Prager’s short film La Grande Sortie (2016). The work was commissioned by the Paris Opera Ballet and scored by Radiohead’s Nigel Godrich. Prager’s film accompanies production stills in “La Grande Sortie”, opening at Lehmann Maupin on September 7, 2016.

An excerpt from Pere Portabella’s Nocturno 29 (1968). To read Erika Balsom’s Film piece on the cinema of Pere Portabella, pick up the September 2016 issue of Artforum, or read it online at Artforum.com here.

John Akomfrah speaks with writer Ekow Eshun at Lisson Gallery about his recent work dealing with themes of migration, history, and memory on the occasion of his debut exhibition at Lisson Gallery, January 22 – March 12, 2016.

Artist Tony Oursler talks with Louisiana Channel about collaborating with David Bowie on the music video for “Where Are We Now” (2013). To read Tony Oursler’s piece on the late David Bowie, pick up the March 2016 issue of Artforum, or click here.

Ben Rivers and Michael Morris on The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (2015). The installation consists of raw footage shot by Rivers on location in Morocco. This footage is projected inside purpose built structures made from redundant film and television sets, mimicking those Rivers found abandoned in the Moroccan desert.

Judith Butler, “Shadows of the Absent,” a lecture at the Harvard Art Museums on grief in the context of Doris Salcedo’s work. This lecture is part of the program “Topography of Loss: A Symposium on Doris Salcedo” at the Harvard Art Museums, March 2-3, 2017.

Zachary Cahill, curator of the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago, talks with critics Jan Verwoert, Jörg Heiser, and musicians Ian F. Svenonius and Nadya Tolokonnikova about lyricism and the metrics of language in their practices.

Part of Expo Chicago’s “/Dialogues” series at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, September 16, 2017.

Flavin Judd, curator and co-president of the Judd Foundation, talks with Graham Foundation director Sarah Herda and Artforum’s senior editor Julian Rose about the role of language in the fields of art and architecture in this Symposium at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Actress Fiona Shaw and philosopher Simon Critchley discuss the tragedy of Medea in this walk through of “A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700BC–200AD,” on view at the Onassis Cultural Center in New York until June 24, 2017.

Artist Dread Scott speaks with artist Eric Gottesman and curator Lauren van Haaften-Schick at Jack Shainman Gallery on July 20, 2016, on the occasion of “For Freedoms,” an artist-run super PAC that uses art to inspire deeper political engagement in the 2016 American Presidential election.

Philosopher Simon Critchley speaks about collaborative relationships at the Guggenheim Museum as part of “It Takes Two,” a symposia presented on the occasion of the retrospective “Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better,” on April 23–24, 2016.

Artist John Knight speaks with art historian Bettina Funcke about his site-specific works that engage institutional critique. This video is part of Artists Space’s “Dialogues” series, in which Funcke speaks with an influential member of the art world about their life and work.

Artist Isa Genzken talks about her life and work with writer Randy Kennedy, dealer Daniel Buchholz, and curator Nicholas Baume, as part of the “Public Art Fund Talks” series organized by Public Art Fund in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School in New York on February 29, 2016.

An excerpt from Chuck Jones’s Water, Water Every Hare (1952), an episode of Looney Tunes featuring Bugs Bunny and Gossamer chosen by Vanessa Place for our online 2016 November election feature. Here, Bugs Bunny gives Gossamer a new hairdo.

The first of Barack Obama's weekly addresses broadcast on YouTube. In the January 2009 issue of Artforum, novelist Lynne Tillman offers some considerations on this and other broadcasts by Obama. For more details, click here.

An excerpt from Karine Laval’s Heterotopia {Remix} (2016), a site-specific installation and performance that blends large-scale video projection with a live musical accompaniment utilizing field recordings of the Costa Rican rainforest. This video premiered on the occasion of her exhibition “Artificial by Nature” at Benrubi Gallery, May 19–July 1, 2016.

Young Jean Lee visits the Performing Garage in early rehearsals for The Wooster Group’s The Town Hall Affair (2016). To read J. Hoberman’s Performance piece on The Wooster Group, pick up the September 2016 issue of Artforum, or read it online at Artforum.com here.

Artist Charles Gaines performs Sound Text and Manifestos at the opening of the third wave of “Agitprop!” at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, April 7, 2016. With musical arrangement by composer Sean Griffin. Both works use transcription methods to translate political documents and speeches into musical notations, which are performed by an eight-piece ensemble and accompanied by a large-scale video projection.

Artist C. Spencer Yeh performs a live adaptation of his project America: The Artist’s Eye with Triple Canopy editors Lucy Ives and Alexander Provan. C. Spencer Yeh also discusses his work with sound and the particularities of voice in his interview, here.

Acclaimed theorist and poet Fred Moten gives a talk on the right to perform, blackness, nonperformance, and freedom. “Afterlives: The Persistence of Performance” is presented in conjunction with the French Institute Alliance Française’s Crossing the Line festival, and in collaboration with Columbia University School of the Arts as part of “Curating the Ephemeral.”

Artist Jordan Casteel discusses her process and her work documenting black masculinity. This video is part of Art21’s “Summer of Shorts” series, a short weekly video interview program featuring various artists, premiering every Friday from June 2 to August 4 on Art21’s website.

The trailer for Djibril Diop Mambeti’s Touki Bouki (1973). To read Koyo Kouoh’s related piece on art institutions in Dakar, pick up the September 2016 issue of Artforum, or read it online at Artforum.com here.

A promo for Josephine Halvorson’s Measures, 2016, three new works presented as part of the annual “Outlooks” exhibition series at Storm King Art Center in upstate New York, which is on view May 14 to November 13, 2016.

Trailer for Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin’s Rudiments, 2015, a film about the formative moments of early youth with music by Kid Millions. This film is co-commissioned by the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle and Forma Arts, and is supported by Arts Council England.

Musician Herb Alpert and various winners of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts talk about the award as well as the importance of the arts in our society. This video was created by Wondros, and directed by Jesse Dylan.

The official trailer for Kathryn Karwat and George Pitts’s Ann Liv Young / I Don’t Exist If You Don’t (2016), a documentary on the many characters of performance artist Ann Liv Young that combines video of her performances with in-depth interviews on her life and art.

The trailer for Maggie Lee’s Mommy (2015), a portrait of the artist’s mother before and after her unexpected death. To read Maggie Lee’s 1000 Words piece where she discusses her film, pick up the April 2016 issue of Artforum, or click here.

The official trailer for Aleksandr Sokurov’s Francofonia (2015), a film about the history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation of France. To read Tony Pipolo’s piece on the film, pick up the April 2016 issue of Artforum, or click here.